Oct 19

Job description

UK BASED CANDIDATES ONLY

Do you love to learn and share with a team who can rely on you and your attention to detail? We want a team player; someone to help the team get things done in an environment that expects creativity and is obsessive about innovation. We are seeking a proactive DevOps Engineer to support a growing distributed team of exceptional software engineers. You will plan, deploy, maintain and secure critical business applications for Surevine as well as our software development projects, and our customers.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a small growing company and shape the way we work!

Location: Gloucestershire/Wiltshire

Start date: November / December 2018

Skills and experience

Essential

5+ years of working within a software engineering environment, at least 2 of which having hands-on experience as a DevOps Engineer.

Strong background in Linux / Unix administration.

Expertise in at least one of: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL or MariaDB.

Experience with developing templates and playbooks for automation/configuration management. For example, Ansible or Amazon CloudFormation.

Demonstrate experience in commodity cloud services such as AWS.

Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an ‘Always-Up, Always-Available’ service.

Understanding of virtualisation such as VMWare, VirtualBox, Xen and KVM.